ARGYLE, Texas — The executive pastor of Cross Timbers church announced his decision to resign, according to a new statement from church elders, less than a month after the resignation of the church’s ...

Fred “Bubba” Copeland, a 49-year-old husband and father of three, was the mayor of Smiths Station, Alabama, population approximately 5,400. He was also the pastor of First Baptist Church of Phenix ...

At the First Baptist Church of Phenix City, Alabama, the last Sunday of October 2023 was Pastor Appreciation Day. The church was festive, the service well attended. There was strawberry cake, Pastor ...

An Alabama mayor and pastor has died by suicide, authorities said, days after a conservative news blog published photos of him dressed in women's clothing and alleged he was leading a secret life as a ...

The executive pastor of Cross Timbers Church in Argyle announced his resignation Monday, less than a month after the lead pastor’s departure. Executive pastor Byron Copeland was initially announced as ...

SMITHS STATION, Ala.SMITHS STATION, Ala. — After the 2019 suicide of a local teenager, small-town mayor and pastor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland helped students place roadside signs in his Alabama community ...

Weeks after the lead pastor at Cross Timbers Church in Argyle stepped down due to allegations of having a concerning pattern of miscommunication with women, an executive pastor decided to resign from ...

F.L. Bubba Copeland, an Alabama mayor and Baptist pastor, died by suicide on Friday, just days after a conservative news site published a story about the pastor’s “secret life” and shared photos of ...

An eastern Alabama mayor has defended pictures of himself dressed as a “transgender curvy girl,” saying were taken when he was with his wife “in the privacy of our home in an attempt of humor.” F.L.

SMITHS STATION, Ala. — After the 2019 suicide of a local teenager, small-town mayor and pastor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland helped students place roadside signs in his Alabama community to try to reach ...